Terminal -> package

[Moosems]

Could you make a package similar to cupcake for the terminal that uses a TTK theme (you can choose the styling options ;) )? Also, I haven't been near my computer to test Biscuit but can you change the directory in the terminal?

[tomlin7]

Yess that's a really good idea ❤ But I'm worried that the current terminal isn't that optimized and is a really poor solution. When I profiled Biscuit, the most critical area was the terminal manager xd. Two threads are spawned per each terminal instance to read from stdout and stderr, so it's really a heavy component. The current terminal manager looks like this.

• can spawn multiple instances
• can be switched between them with the tabs and close them individually

I will look forward into optimizing the terminal solution and then if its a fairly good one, publish it as a standalone embeddable widget!

[Moosems]

Maybe you should change the Mac commands to the respective Windows ones ;).

[tomlin7]

@Moosems it supports running multiple commands yes!
here's a comparison

[Moosems]

Can you run a valid command after an invalid one?

[tomlin7]

@Moosems yes you can, the terminal doesnt crash on command failing

[Moosems]

Beautiful :).

[Moosems]

Does the terminal support visual apps like nano and vim?

[tomlin7]

@Moosems sorry my bad! xd
but have a look at this

a = input("enter name: ")
print(a)
print(a)

[Moosems]

Interesting. Something to look into for sure.

[Moosems]

https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-terminal

[Moosems]

https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js

[tomlin7]

@Moosems my friend once worked on a terminal emulator, this was the only issue seemed troublesome and later lead to she leaving the project 😅

but yes, these terminals are pretty complicated, and i will look into them, will try researching more

[cid0rz]

Terminal buffering is complicated

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[tomlin7]

yep, and hope we will figure it out one day xd

[Moosems]

@billyeatcookies take a look at this: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/terminal+emulator

The Expect extension looks pretty promising. What if you made a wrapper around it?

[tomlin7]

@Moosems couldn't really dig up most of the information, also i'm really bad at tcl, and i haven't researched on the wrapper topic any much!

[Moosems]

Take some time eventually, I think you'll be happily surprised.

[Moosems]

Anything on the separate package idea?

[tomlin7]

i rewrote the terminal recently. Now it can run programs that enter a loop too. But as of now, I'm not parsing and using the ANSI codes generated properly yet. I'm just printing plain text after stripping off all the ANSI escapes.

The separate package idea might help with development here, so yes I'm thinking about it, I'll update here soon.

[Moosems]

Nice!

[tomlin7]

@Moosems lets continue with this topic at https://github.com/billyeatcookies/mono